Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

Peace is not found by changing the world, but by changing your attitude to the world.

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

Compassion is not just about being kind to others. It's about being kind to ourselves as well.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

The grass is greener where you water it.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

Generosity generates its own enthusiasm. We don't have to force ourselves to be generous; we just need to start.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

The challenge in meditation is not to eliminate thinking but to understand the nature of thought itself.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

The movement of love is what creates the beauty in our lives.

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.

The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible, without resorting to anything external or superadded.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who we think we should be, but about unbecoming who we are not.

The most important things in our practice are our physical posture and our way of breathing.

Concentration and insight are like two wings of a bird: both are necessary for the flight to liberation.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

The real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.